]]>By: KickandSwimMomhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/24/gop-grapples-with-divisions-de-romneyization-as-rnc-meets-in-charlotte/comment-page-1/#comment-2255000
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:28:51 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=239613#comment-2255000I don’t think the GOPe will learn a damn thing about the last election. They can’t change who they are. Their problems are not voter turnout, money, Romney’s campaign apparatus, etc. Their problem is their own watered-down ideology and lazy contentment to just hang on the fringes of the democrat party and live off the crumbs of power the democrats throw them.

If I had a dime for every time some clueless Rombot Toady came here and told me how stupid I was for supporting Palin, and how much of a sure thing was Governor Marmalarde, I’d be sitting in the Bahamas right now.

]]>By: astoneriihttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/24/gop-grapples-with-divisions-de-romneyization-as-rnc-meets-in-charlotte/comment-page-1/#comment-2254974
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:06:31 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=239613#comment-2254974Romney ran a campaign to win the primary and throw the general. It is just how it is. On purpose? His views are progressive.

I like that whole de-Romneyization, I called the Romneyization the Obamafication of the Republican Party, and much like how the communists infiltrated and never were thrown out of the educations system, Hollywood and our news, so too will the Romney thugs be too entrenched in the Republican Party to ever reclaim the party for conservative ends.

2. Make Amends With Those You Shoved Aside. The real reason the Tea Party and Palin were marginalized in ’12 was because of commitments made to Romney back in 2008 before either Palin or Tea Party had come along.

Sekhmet on January 24, 2013 at 8:43 AM

Something the GOPe cannot and will not do. What this article highlights is how hopeless the GOP is. It’s dead.

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Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:43:09 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=239613#comment-22549551. No Next In Line—it just gives the other guys 4 years to prepare, and what is good for Candidate X becomes what is good for the Party, even if what is good for Candidate X is not what is good for the Party.

2. Make Amends With Those You Shoved Aside. The real reason the Tea Party and Palin were marginalized in ’12 was because of commitments made to Romney back in 2008 before either Palin or Tea Party had come along.

3. Have Plans Ready For Likely Contingencies. Be on the ball for once.

On one end of the spectrum are those who stress the GOP’s failure to appeal to Hispanics and other minorities, arguing that the party must make fundamental changes to broaden its appeal. On the other end are those who stress the GOP’s failure to master even the basics of voter turnout in the last election, along with the flawed candidacy of Mitt Romney, arguing that the party does not need to change its principles or message so much as learn the turnout and messaging techniques used so successfully by the competition.